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BJC Employees upset after car break-ins

4 months 1 week ago
BJC HealthCare employees are on edge after yet another wave of car break-ins at hospital parking garages—this time at Parkview Tower and the Euclid Garage. 
Taylor Harris

VIDEO: Mayor Jones Signs Board Bill to “Make Available a Diverse Construction Workforce”

4 months 1 week ago
From KMOV:   St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones signed Board Bill 155 on Friday. A summary of the bill reads: “An ordinance to provide minimum standards to make available a more highly-trained and diverse construction workforce, and increase the number and ability of diverse highroad construction employers to perform infrastructure, commercial, residential, and industrial construction services to, for, […]
Rachel Finan

$500M Expansion of East Alton Copper Plant

4 months 1 week ago
From St. Louis Public Radio:  Construction on a German company’s $500 million expansion of its manufacturing plant in East Alton has started and will be finished in the next three years, company and elected officials said Monday. Executives at Wieland Manufacturing, an international producer of copper and copper alloys, said the investment to a facility […]
Rachel Finan

St. Louis City Taking Steps to Redevelop Abandoned Properties in North City

4 months 1 week ago
From KMOV:  The City of St. Louis is taking new steps to redevelop abandoned properties in North City. The Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority sent letters to owners offering to buy the dilapidated properties. They have offered more than $1 million total for 87 private sites, the majority of which are owned by Paul McKee’s Northside […]
Rachel Finan

Arms to Ukraine halted

4 months 1 week ago
It's official: The U.S. will pause all military aid to Kyiv until President Trump determines that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making a good-faith effort toward peace negotiations with Russia, according to a White House official. Trump's revenge is now complete.
Kevin Drum

Office buildings are sprouting like trees

4 months 1 week ago
Construction data was released today, and once again I don't get this: Following the pandemic, everyone was supposedly working from home. Downtowns were hollowed out. Vacancy rates were 50%. And yet, construction of office buildings has never fallen below its pre-pandemic peak. We're putting up new office buildings like gangbusters. What's going on?
Kevin Drum